The Daily Cruise and Travel News ”Podcast” with Tom Drake

It will now cost you two euros to go down to the Trevi fountain in Rome! Carnival Cruise Line bans hanging any lights on your cabin door during the holiday season. Bah! Safety! Common sense! Viking will help build a welcome center at Highclere Castle! River Cruise lines are adding more Christmas market cruises. People like to look at ornaments and lights

Royal Caribbean expands its land options with a deal to rebuild Crown Bay! The consumer price index says airfares are down! The guru likes that! Green card-holding guests were denied sailing because they did not bring their green cards. Duh! Spirit Airlines is trying to cut a deal with Frontier Airlines after its JetBlue deal was blown out of the water by a liberal judge in Massachusetts.

Survey says Paris is the most luxurious place to live! Snobby French in Cannes and Villefranche are limiting the number of cruisers who can be overcharged for average food and slow service! PortMiami celebrates jamming 1 million passengers through their port in one month! Jamaica announces 300K passengers have visited since the hurricane!

Carnival Cruise Line will sponsor the Big Boom in San Diego on July 4th! The new 6,000 pax Disney Adventure will sail to nowhere from Singapore! Bye Bye Biffle! The Frontier CEO is moved to the back of the plane after too many losses! Carnival Cruise Line adds more Adult-Only cruises because some guests don't like kids!  

MSC orders four more mega-mothers! Is London the place for Christmas?  IATA plans to waste money on a campaign telling flyers not to carry anything during an evacuation! The Guru wonders why five-star hotels think they can operate cruise ships~

The TSA is ratting out illegals to the CBP! A JD Power survey says the Centurion club is the best private airport lounge! Port Miami has set another record for jamming too many ships and too many people into the port on the same day! One Carnival guest wth no life is furious the ship won't have Netflix at Christmas!

The proposed changes to the US ESTA application are too invasive! Luxury cruises continue to grow in popularity! New Zealand tourism dollars are down because they wanted them to go down! The new NCL President was hired because he can get people to sell NCL!

Beep Beep! 109.5 million will travel by car in the U.S. this holiday season! Some Carnival ships are offering cooking classes! For their cooks? Airlines are now admitting they won't reach their SAF fuel quotas! Royal Caribbean reports rosy numbers for this quarter!

Virgin Voyages will now match almost any points from anywhere! Regent Seven Seas' new build floats! That is a good thing! Carnival, with partners, will build another revenue destination in Ensenada! US airlines only earn $10.00 per passenger!  Hard to believe!

Holland America adds pickleball courts to its private island! Explora Journeys and Schmilton are working together on loyalty programs! P&O will now offer five-berth cabins! Why? The FAA awards 12 billion dollar contract to improve the air traffic control system!